Finance apps

Between the useful functions your iPhone serves and the entertainment it provides, you might have your iPhone glued to your hand during your waking hours. We do, too. You’ve heard the saying “There’s an app for that” — and there is! We’re bringing you fun and useful apps for your iPhone every week. Today, we’re sharing five apps to help manage your finances.

Whether you are looking to pay off your credit cards, start saving for retirement or just need to get a handle on everyday money matters, these personal finance apps can help.

Pageonce

This award-winning app allows you to manage your finances all in one place. You can pay your bills on the go, monitor your credit cards and bank accounts, track your spending and much more. Pageonce also gives you alerts and reminders about everything from upcoming bills to suspicious transactions, so you’ll always be on top of your financial situation. The format is very easy to use and intuitive. Currently the bill pay functions work with more than 6,000 providers, and they are adding more all the time. PageOnce is trusted by nearly 7 million users.

Price: Free

Mint

If you are looking for a free, comprehensive way to manage your money, track your expenditures and maintain your budget, Mint.com is it. More than 8 million people use Mint. You simply open a free account, add your bank accounts, credit card information and other details, then Mint does everything else. It syncs with your financial institutions, automatically updates in real time and categorizes all your transactions. With the Mint app, you can manage all your personal finances on the go with ease.

Price: Free

Doxo

Doxo allows you to get digital statements from utility and other service providers and pay your bills securely, right from your iPhone. Paperless billing is great for the environment, and it cuts down on clutter in your home too. But Doxo is about more than paying bills. With this app, you can snap photos of your receipts, statements and other important documents and have them stored on Doxo — your digital file cabinet. With unlimited storage, you can back up all your important family documents. This app is a fantastic way to get organized and manage your personal finances all in one spot.

Price: Free

Adaptu Wallet

This iPhone app links your accounts, monitors your spending and uses all your other information to give you a clear picture of your current financial situation to help you make sound decisions. It allows you to adapt to (Adaptu) whatever is going on to stay on top of money matters. Adaptu Wallet contains some wonderful features, from basic budget management to advanced charts, graphs and summaries. You can even create “watchlists” to check out quotes, news and stats on stocks and other investment opportunities. Additionally, you can get spending forecasts, track loyalty programs and store photos of business cards, insurance cards, membership cards and other stuff you normally keep in your wallet.

Price: Free

Shoeboxed

Clean up your files, stacks of paper and shoe boxes full of receipts with Shoeboxed. This cool iPhone app digitizes your receipts and archives them into easy-to-browse, fully-formatted data. You just snap a picture of any receipt and within one business day, the information will be extracted and stored for you. This app is a terrific way to create a secure, permanent, searchable archive of online receipts — which are even accepted by the IRS. You’ll love this receipt reader and tracking system.